Magpie Monday on Wednesday

A trailer for a live-action Gatchaman? I am so there. The trailer’s in Japanese, but it features pretty everything you’d expect to see in a Gatchaman movie, I’d say.

Another foreign-language trailer, but, never fear, it has subtitles. The title Big Bad Wolves drew me in (obviously), but the movie itself sounds interesting.

An upcoming crime drama from BBC, Death Comes to Pemberley, stars Jenna-Louise Coleman (she of Doctor Who) as Lydia Wickham of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Read more about it here.

Jenna-Louise Coleman in the Doctor Who episode “The Snowmen”

Collider has an interview with Katee Sackhoff from the set of Riddick. Lots of interesting bits. Via.

Looks like it’s official: Locke & Key, the fantastic comic by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, will be made into a film from Universal. Personally, I would rather have seen Locke & Key made into a TV series (I think part of where the story thrives is in its nuances, and only so much of that can be translated into a big-screen movie, even if it is a trilogy), but I’ll be interested to see what the writer(s) and director do with the source material. More information here and here.

Meryl Streep’s birthday was June 22nd, and to celebrate Flavorwire compiled a list of her 10 worst movies. What do you think?

Robert Jones, the YouTuber who put together the dance scene supercut I shared a while ago, is back with a movie fight scene version. Again, some fine editing. Enjoy!

◊ THE VIEW FROM HERE.

Interesting way of getting around interfaith-marriage burials back in the 19th century: a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband were buried in neighboring cemeteries in Holland. Via (at the link you’ll find a picture from the second cemetery).

From the Super Punch tumblr: “A submerged idol of Hindu Lord Shiva stands in the flooded River Ganges in Rishikesh, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, on June 18, 2013.”

◊ MAKE WITH THE FUNNY.

The perfect interoffice birthday card–or, why are Simon and Steve F. such jerks? You’ll want to enlarge this one. Via.

I thought this Feminist Makeup Tutorial was hilarious. Too bad that some people don’t get the joke, or seem to understand what “parody” means. Via.

mental_floss shared 14 cakes inspired by scientific concepts, and these cakes are definitely inspired. Most of my favorites are the, how to say, more indelicate concepts, like #10. However, I’ll share one of the delicate ones with you:

This “Geology” cake was made by Khol? for a Threadless cake-decorating competition; Khol? recreated the “Geology” design by Tim Babb

For people who are vegans and love black metal: Vegan Black Metal Chef shares his recipe for vegan lasagna. I want a blender of oblivion! Via.

◊ THE HORNS OF ELFLAND.

Some modern mellow: “Instant Attraction” by Garçon Garçon.

The fabulous Angela Still shared the link to “Lotion” by Green Keepers on Facebook, and I loved its creepy perfection so much I couldn’t not share it here. Be warned: this song is strangely addictive!

The next two videos are for Angela in celebration of our love of 70s music:

And some more 70s love: the first song, the theme to Shaft, is a personal favorite because, in addition to its awesomeness, one of my former students once wrote me a theme song to its tune and then performed it in class.

"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. M.D. Herter Norton